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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	church_n	earth_n	triumphant_a	4,427	5	11.4398	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27207	Considerations on a book, entituled The theory of the earth, publisht some years since by the Dr. Burnet	Beaumont, John, d. 1731.	1693 (1693)	Wing B1620; ESTC R170484	132,774	195

the heaven of heavens in the Eastern part Mr. Gregory having thus establisht his Ground says that this is the reason why God planted a Garden in Eden Eastward and that though some say with Mercerus That nothing hinders but we may take it generally that Paradise was planted in the Eastern part of the World towards the rising Sun yet Damascen and Barcephas say that at the beginning of March the Sun alway rises directly over Paradise meaning that the Garden of Eden was planted toward the Aequinoctial East of the Holy Land and the meaning of this is that the Sanctum Sanctorum of this Mother Church pointed towards that part of Heaven where the Sun rises in the month Nisan For the Sanctuary of Paradise was the recess of the Garden which was distinguisht and made so by the presence of the Tree of Life Now this Tree according as we commonly translate it was planted in the midst of the Garden but in truth it stood in the Eastern part of the place And that not only Adam but the whole World also worshipt towards the East till Abraham's time Maimoni in his More and S. Ephrem and others in the Arabick Catena testifie And it depends from this very same Ground that the most solemn piece of all the Jewish Service I mean that Great attonement but once a Year to be made by the highest and most holy Man and in the most holy Place was perform'd towards the East contrary to all other manner of addressments in their Devotion For Lev 16.14 15. It 's commanded that the high Priest shall do with the blood of the Goat as with the blood of the Bullock and sprinkle it with his finger upon the Mercy-seat Eastward Now it s known that the sprinkling of blood especially this was the Figure of him who by his own blood entred into the holy Place and obtain'd Eternal Redemption Heb. 9.12 And hence Isychius Hierosolom says this was done to represent the Man Cui oriens nomen ejus and there are many passages in the Scriptures which signifie to us that Christ came down to us from the East And this is one reason why our Saviour is said to be the Man whose Name is the East in reference to whom the Christians by some have been called Orientales and the Blessed Virgin is call'd Orientalis porta The other reason is according to what was intimated before viz. that from Adam till Abraham's time the whole World worshipt towards the East Now this Original Principal and as it ought to have been everlasting Ceremony by an Errour of the Persian and Chaldean worshippers degenerating into an Idolatry of the Sun Abraham says the Learned Maimoni by divine Inspiration appointed the West to his Hebrews therefore the Tabernacle and Temple were set towards that side of Heaven So that they did and they did not worshipt towards the West 'T is true all the Sacrifices were offer'd up that way but all this while they worshipt no more towards the West than towards the North. They worship towards the Ark or towards the place of that and do so still and are so to do because the Sun of Righteousness was to set upon their Horizon and to them the Man whose Name is th' East is not yet brought forth It 's known also that Christs Star appear'd in the East and the Wise-men came thence and Christ ascended up into the Eastern part of Heaven as the Psalmist says Qui ascendit super coelum coeli ad Orientem And S. Jo. Damascen delivers as from the Apostles that he shall come again in like manner as he was seen to go hence answerable to what he himself said For as the lightning comes out of the East and shines even unto the West so shall also the coming of the Son of man be We worship him therefore toward the East as expecting him from thence Mr. Gregory concludes with an ancient Profession of the Eastern Church who say We pray toward the East for that our Lord Christ when he ascended into Heaven went up that way and there fits in the Heaven of Heavens above the East according to David Praise the Lord who sits in the Heaven of Heavens in the East and in truth we make no doubt but that our Lord Christ as respecting his humane Nature has his Seat in the Eastern part of the Heav'n of Heav'ns and sits with his Face towards this World To pray therefore or to worship toward the East is to pray and worship toward our Saviour And that all this is to be meant of the Aequinoctial East it is made out by Moses Barcephas in his Discourse of Paradise he says there that the place toward which they prayed is that over which the Sun rises in the Month Nisan which is the Vernal Aequinox This is what I have briefly collected from Mr. Gregory from which I may draw what follows as a Corollary It appears from what is said that the Ancient Jews and Christians plac'd their Terrestrial and Coelestial Paradises with reference to the states of the Churches Militant and Triumphant the one under the Sun on the Earth the other over it in the third Heavens as the Sun was plac'd in the Aequinoctial East of Hierusalem and consequently of the whole habitable World and how possibly could the ancient Mystae who took upon them to bring all things to Time and Place more aptly personate a particular presence of the divine Logos in Heav'n and Earth than there Since as he enlightens every Man coming into this World so the Sun being in that Aequinoctial East Point equally diffus'd its light over the whole habitable Earth and hence we direct our divine Worship that way and may conclude the Seat of the Terrestrial Paradise there though perhaps it was miraculously founded or at least for many Ages has not been known to Man And as the foremention'd Mr. Gregory has observ'd according to the sense of the most knowing The Year of the World began the Sun being in that Vernal Aequinox Point its Revolutions beginning and ending there nor can any other good reason be given why the Astronomers should deduce all their Calculations from the head of Aries If the Pains I have bestow'd in composing this long Chapter may help somewhat to ease the mind of any Man that peruses it concerning the Seat of Paradise I shall think it well bestow'd at least beside my labour for my pains it seems to give a little ease to my own CHAP. VIII HERE the Author sets forth the uses of his Theory for the illustration of Antiquity and endeavours to explain the Ancients Chaos the Uninhabitableness of the Torrid Zone the Changes of the Poles of the World the Doctrine of the Mundane Egg and endeavours to shew how America was first Peopled c. First then concerning the Ancients Chaos he says they have made a dark confus'd and unintelligible Story of it telling us of moral Principles in it instead